US History 11

All of the following were central to African-American concepts of freedom EXCEPT: A) the end of segregation in churches and schools. B) control of land. C) access to an education. D) churches controlled by the African-American community. E) self-determination of work schedules.

A

The Southern state constitutions written during Reconstruction did all of the following EXCEPT: A) provide African-Americans with access to land by confiscating large estates. B) create the first state-funded systems of education in the South. C) require the establishment of orphanages, penitentiaries, and homes for the insane. D) abolish property qualifications for office-holding and jury service. E) expand democracy and the public role of the state.

A

Union League chapters did all of the following EXCEPT: A) instruct freedmen in the rights and duties of citizenship. B) encourage African-Americans to vote. C) engage white citizens in political debates. D) promote Republican candidates for office. E) assemble groups to campaign for the right to vote.

A

By 1850, all of the following were true of the United States EXCEPT: A) it had almost doubled the number of states in the Union since 1800. B) it had made manufactured goods the nation's principal export. C) it had experienced the most rapid urbanization in its history. D) it had more than tripled in size territorially since 1800. E) per-capita income doubled since 1800.

B

The map of the Reconstruction of the South, 1866-1877, shows that all of the former Confederate states were placed in one of five military districts in 1867, EXCEPT: A) Alabama. B) Tennessee. C) Georgia. D) Virginia. E) South Carolina.

B

The map of the Reconstruction of the South, 1866-1877, shows that all of the former Confederate states were readmitted to the Union by: A) 1868. B) 1870. C) 1872. D) 1874. E) 1877.

B

The map that shows the percentage of sharecropped farms by county indicates that most of the counties with large percentages of sharecropped land were found: A) along the Gulf Coast in states such as Florida and Louisiana. B) in Georgia. C) in states of the Upper South such as Tennessee and Arkansas. D) along the Atlantic Coast in states such as Virginia. E) in Florida.

B

Freedmen joined the Union League and supported the Republican Party for all of the following reasons EXCEPT to: A) push for land redistribution. B) press for more autonomy for the black work force. C) force whites to grant more social equality. D) agitate for land confiscation. E) work for better labor contracts for freedmen.

C

Once a Southern state was taken control of by conservative Democrats, African Americans faced all of the following EXCEPT: A) obstacles to voting. B) more controls on plantation labor. C) loss of land. D) clashes with armed whites. E) cuts in social services.

C

The Southerners who joined the Republican Party included all of the following EXCEPT: A) former planters who sought to control the Republican Party as a means of overturning Reconstruction. B) former Whigs who hoped to regain political influence through the Republican Party. C) Southerners who saw the Republican Party as an agent of modernization and economic expansion. D) enemies of the planter elite. E) opponents of secession who sought Republican help in bringing relief from debt and wartime devastation.

C

The map of the election of 1876 shows that the: A) Republican, Rutherford B. Hayes, carried all of the northern states. B) Democrat, Samuel J. Tilden, failed to carry his home state of New York. C) returns of four states were contested. D) Republicans did poorly in the Pacific Coast region. E) Democrats took four of the six New England states.

C

19) Which of the following represents the correct chronological order of events? 19) A) Tenure of Office Act passed, Crédit Mobilier scandal, Slaughterhouse cases decided, and Union Pacific-Central Pacific railroads united. B) Crédit Mobilier scandal, Tenure of Office Act passed, Union Pacific-Central Pacific railroads united, and Slaughterhouse cases decided. C) Slaughterhouse cases decided, Tenure of Office Act passed, Crédit Mobilier scandal, and Union Pacific-Central Pacific railroads united. D) Tenure of Office Act passed, Union Pacific-Central Pacific railroads united, Crédit Mobilier scandal, and Slaughterhouse cases decided. E) Tenure of Office Act passed, Union Pacific-Central Pacific railroads united, Slaughterhouse cases decided, and Crédit Mobilier scandal.

D

Congress encouraged the construction of railroads through all of the following EXCEPT: A) loans. B) tax incentives. C) land grants. D) rate subsidies. E) financing deals.

D

In addition to the Union Pacific, all of the following railroads were built EXCEPT the: A) Southern Pacific. B) Great Northern. C) Central Pacific. D) Burlingham and Sacramento. E) Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fé.

D

Johnson's Reconstruction Plan sought to do all of the following EXCEPT: A) extend pardons to Southerners who swore an oath of allegiance. B) restrict Reconstruction to the domain of the executive branch. C) restore the Union quickly. D) extend voting rights to former slaves. E) restore property rights to Southerners who swore allegiance to the Union.

D

The Liberal Republicans: 1) D A) demanded legislation to extend the suffrage. B) sought more state aid to help the poor. C) urged a stronger federal presence in the South to protect the freedmen. D) called for a return to limited government and laissez-faire principles. E) looked to expand democracy.

D

Emancipation altered gender roles for African-Americans for all of the following reasons EXCEPT: A) Freedmen's Bureau agents identified males as heads of households and established higher wage scales for them. B) African-American women wanted to devote more time to domestic chores. C) African-American editors, preachers, and politicians quoted the biblical injunction that wives submit to their husbands. D) African-American men who served in the Union army played a more direct role in achieving emancipation than African American women. E) African-American women preferred to stay at home and refused to work at outside jobs.

E

Prominent railroad executives in the Gilded Age included all of the following EXCEPT: A) Cornelius Vanderbilt. B) James J. Hill. C) Jay Gould. D) Collis P. Huntington. E) John D. Rockefeller.

E

The First Reconstruction Act passed in 1867 did all of the following EXCEPT: A) overturn the Presidential Reconstruction process. B) divide the South into military districts. C) generate new state constitutional conventions. D) require Southern states to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment. E) require Southern states to write new constitutions guaranteeing equality for freedmen.

E

Which of the following is the correct chronological order of events? A) Grant elected president, Thirteenth Amendment enacted, Ku Klux Klan founded, and Union Pacific-Central Pacific railroads united. B) Ku Klux Klan founded, Thirteenth Amendment enacted, Union Pacific-Central Pacific railroads united, and Grant elected president. C) Ku Klux Klan founded, Thirteenth Amendment enacted, Grant elected president, and Union Pacific-Central Pacific railroads united. D) Thirteenth Amendment enacted, Ku Klux Klan founded, Union Pacific-Central Pacific railroads united, and Grant elected president. E) Thirteenth Amendment enacted, Ku Klux Klan founded, Grant elected president, and Union Pacific-Central Pacific railroads united.

E